Example Sentences

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When Mr. Gunn tweeted that companionless is “one of my favorite ways to see a film,” he sparked an online discussion about the pros and cons of going it alone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2018

He was companionless until Indianapolis, where he abandoned his car and got into a friend’s.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2017

Sitting companionless at a table patently designed for four, I composed the portrait of my meal with some care, both to entice my viewers and to deride my circumstances.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2015

Where I was, in fact, was companionless, far away from where I had gotten off the trail, and impossibly adrift from a touchingly optimistic hiking schedule I had drawn up nearly a year before.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

He lives his own life—his ill-bred, complaining, gloomy, companionless life—an outcast from that better society of which we all long to be a part.

From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Eichler, Lillian